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1975
I. Corporate Language · Italy & EMEA Vol. L · Est. 1975

The Italian boutique
HR teams pick
when language matters at work.

Italian for international hires. Executive coaching. Corporate relocation. Certified live faculty — plus a real digital platform with HR dashboard and SCORM‑ready LMS integration. Small enough to know every learner by name, old enough to have done it for fifty years.

Faculty session · Milan campus
1975
Operating since
14
Languages on request
4
Owned campuses, Italy
1
Dedicated PM per account
II. Selected Clients Active engagements · 2024–2026

A selected group. One Italian partner.

Pharma R&D teams, luxury maisons, Italian heritage industry, university partners. We work with a small number of accounts on purpose — depth over scale.

Pharma R&D group
Italian luxury maison
Tier-1 consulting firm
Heritage automotive
Politecnico Milano
European NGO
Italian university partner
Premium fashion house
Pharma R&D group
Italian luxury maison
Tier-1 consulting firm
Heritage automotive
Politecnico Milano
European NGO
Italian university partner
Premium fashion house
Pharma & healthcare
Luxury & fashion
Finance & consulting
Industry & automotive
Academic & NGO
III. Owned Campuses 4 cities · Italy

Four Italian cities. Four classrooms we own.

Most vendors rent hotel meeting rooms. We teach in spaces we have operated for decades — with full Italian-immersion context built in. Programs run on-site at the client and at our own facilities, interchangeably.

Milan
Headquarters
Florence
Campus
Mantua
Specialist center
Turin
Campus
IV. Hybrid Platform Live faculty · Digital reinforcement · HR dashboard

Live faculty plus a real digital platform.

Sessions with certified trainers, paired with an app for daily practice and an HR dashboard for tracking progress, attendance, and CEFR milestones. SCORM-ready for your LMS.

  • App · Learners iOS & Android — daily micro-lessons, vocab review, push reminders, audio drills between live sessions.
  • Dashboard · HR Live progress — attendance, CEFR milestones, engagement per learner, exportable quarterly reports.
  • Integration SCORM 1.2 / xAPI — deploy inside Cornerstone, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Moodle, or our portal.
  • Security GDPR · EU residency — data on EU servers, SSO via SAML or Azure AD on request.
  • Reporting Written quarterly — one PDF for L&D, signed by the program manager, with pre/post benchmarking.
platform.internationalcouncil.it / hr-dashboard
Italian B1 · Pharma R&D cohort Active
12
Learners
86%
Attendance
A2→B1
In 14 wks
EM
Elena M.Researcher · B1
78%
JS
Jakob S.Lab manager · A2+
62%
AY
Ayşe Y.QA lead · B1
91%
Next live · Tue 10:30 Export · SCORM · PDF
V. A Client Voice Pharma · 11 consecutive years
International Council has been our language partner for over a decade. They understand pharma terminology, they understand expat onboarding, and they deliver consistently across our Milan and Florence sites — in a way no global vendor has matched.
Head of Talent & Development Top-5 Global Pharmaceutical Group · Milan · Switzerland
Live session · Milan campus
VI. The Approach Four phases · One program manager

The Council Method.

Fifty years of refining how multinationals learn languages inside their own organizations. Four phases. One owner per program. Written outcomes — not vibes.

01Discover

Needs analysis with HR and line managers

We listen first. Roles, deadlines, business outcomes, learner profiles. Our consultants come from corporate, not academia.

02Design

Custom curriculum, industry-specific

Pharma terminology. Luxury craftsmanship vocabulary. Financial English. We build the syllabus around your work, not against a generic textbook.

03Deliver

Live faculty, digital reinforcement

Certified trainers on-site or online. Digital practice between sessions. Single program manager owning your account end-to-end.

04Measure

CEFR milestones, written reports

Quarterly progress reports to HR and L&D. Pre/post CEFR benchmarking. The Council Learning Guarantee in every contract.

VII. Use Cases Engineered against business outcome

Four business-critical moments.

Each program is engineered against a defined business outcome — not generic CEFR levels. We measure success in onboarded engineers, relocated executives, won deals, retained talent.

→ 01 / Onboarding

Italian acceleration for relocating engineers.

Time-to-productive in weeks, not months. We work with HR and line managers to deploy in-office programs before the first 90 days end.

  • 2x weekly · 4 to 12 weeks
  • CEFR A1→B1 in 90 days
  • Industry vocabulary built-in
Pharma R&D · Milan
→ 02 / Expat Relocation

Full-immersion for C-suite & senior families.

Italian and cultural fluency for executives relocating to Milan, Florence, Mantua, Turin — with optional family and spouse modules running in parallel.

  • Private 1:1 · 6 to 24 weeks
  • Tutor matched to industry
  • Family modules on request
Luxury · Florence
→ 03 / Sales Enablement

Business English for client-facing teams.

Industry-specific English for sales, negotiators, retail managers. Pharma, luxury, finance, automotive — vertical terminology, never generic.

  • Small group · 8 to 16 weeks
  • Pre/post CEFR measurement
  • Roleplay on real client scenarios
Finance · Milan
→ 04 / Leadership & Culture

Executive coaching across 14 languages.

Combined language and intercultural fluency for senior leaders running multinational teams. Run across pharma, luxury, banking and consulting clients.

  • Executive 1:1 · ongoing
  • 14 languages active
  • Cross-cultural assessment included
Big-4 Consulting · Turin
VIII. Private Learners Handled by our sister school

Are you a private learner?

If you are an individual looking to study Italian in Florence, Milan, Mantua or Turin — weekly courses, Bildungsurlaub, CILS/CELI prep, visa support — head to our sister school Accademia di Italiano. Same group since 1975, dedicated team for private learners.

Sister school Accademia
di Italiano
IX. Proof Anonymized · Logos under NDA

Named by industry, measured by outcome.

Anonymized results from active client engagements. Logos and detailed references available under NDA upon request.

Pharma · Italy + Switzerland

Top-5 Pharma Group

Italian-language onboarding for 120 international researchers transferred to Milan R&D hub. Hybrid delivery (on-site + online) across 18 months.

94%Reached B1+ in <9 months
Luxury · Florence + Milan

Italian Luxury House

Business-English program for 60 retail managers and visual merchandisers across European boutiques. Vertical curriculum on craftsmanship terminology.

2.3xClient-facing English confidence (pre/post)
Big-4 Consulting · Milan

Global Professional Services Firm

Cross-cultural communication coaching for 40 senior consultants on Italian client engagements. Combined with executive Italian for partner-level expats.

12wkFrom kickoff to executive-ready
X. Delivery On-site · Online · Hybrid · Blended

Wherever your teams work, we teach there.

From an executive's office in Milan to a remote engineer in Singapore. Four delivery modes, one consistent methodology and reporting.

01

On-Site

Trainers deployed to your offices across Italy. Tailored timetables fitting shift patterns and meeting calendars.

02

Owned Campuses

Four proprietary schools — Milan, Florence, Mantua, Turin. Full-immersion programs for relocating executives and onboarding cohorts.

03

Online Live

1:1 and small-group sessions with our certified faculty, scheduled across global time zones. SCORM-ready content library.

04

Hybrid & Blended

Self-paced digital reinforcement between live sessions. Single LMS, single progress report for the L&D team.

Our Commitment

The Council Learning Guarantee.

If a learner does not reach the agreed CEFR milestone within the contracted timeframe, additional sessions are delivered at no charge until the target is met. In writing, in every contract.

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Built for enterprise procurement and IT.

50 years of contracting with multinationals means we speak the language of your legal, IT and L&D teams.

GDPR
EU data residency
SCORM / xAPI
LMS-ready
SSO
SAML / Azure AD
DPO
Internal Data Protection Officer

Let's talk about the language challenge inside your business.

A 30-minute call with one of our enterprise consultants. No deck, no pitch — we listen, we map your need, and we send you a written proposal within 5 business days. We onboard a small number of new enterprise accounts each quarter, on purpose.